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EDIUS Elite
The Ultimate File-Based Workflows

It takes a team to make good content great.

Fuel your team's creativity with Grass Valley® EDIUS® Elite editing. Specifically designed for broadcast applications, EDIUS Elite delivers better editing and faster operations, opening up new possibilities for workgroup collaboration.

With EDIUS Elite, you'll eliminate the need for conversions, processes, and extra components, so you'll have quick-turn production in news and studio environments. Real-time, multitrack, mixed-format editing, compositing, chromakeying, titling, and timeline output capabilities make EDIUS Elite the perfect solution for your file-based workflows.

Collaborate Better: EDIUS Elite is specifically designed for the broadcast environment, so you'll easily move your projects forward, even in various workflows, giving you the capability to create more content for new distribution outlets.

Produce Faster: Comprehensive interoperability with Grass Valley's K2 Summit® media server and storage platform, as well as the Grass Valley STRATUS® Media Workflow Application Framework means faster, more cohesive overall production efficiencies.

Integrate More: With EDIUS Elite "field-to-site" integration capabilities, you'll have direct access to the K2 file system allowing you to take advantage of edit-in-place capabilities for multiple edit stations.

Latest features in EDIUS Elite:
  • Interoperability with Grass Valley® STRATUS®
  • K2 Clip/K2 Program import/export
  • K2 Clip capture
  • Simul Edit capture
  • Audio bitstream pass-through (Dolby-E/AC3)
  • Color correction tool supports 10-bit color depth
  • Export sequence with alpha channel
  • Improved XDCAM/P2 data transfer
  • 3D (stereoscopic) editing
  • AVCHD 2.0 support
  • AVCHD 3D support
  • EOS movie support (ALL-I (I-only), IPB)
  • Filmstrip view in timeline
  • Enhanced video layout (drop shadow, resize quality)
  • Built-in loudness meter
  • Built-in shake stabilizer
  • 720p Blu-ray Disc authoring support
  • Flash F4V export
  • QuickTime HQ/HQX codec (Windows/Mac)

EDIUS Elite Features:
  • Work natively with many different video formats, such as Sony's XDCAM, Panasonic's P2, Ikegami's GF, Canon's XF format
  • Fast, flexible user interface, including unlimited video, audio, title, and graphics tracks
  • Real-time editing and conversion of different resolutions, as high as 4K/2K to as low as 24x24
  • Real-time editing and conversion of different frame rates, such as 60p/50p, 60i/50i, and 24p
  • Real-time effects, keyers, transitions, and titles
  • Proxy mode workflow by switching timeline between proxy/hi-res mode
  • Nested timeline sequences
  • Multicamera editing of up to 16 different sources simultaneously
  • Direct to Blu-ray Disc and DVD timeline export
  • Export in AVCHD format to a media card
  • Windows 7 support (32-bit/64-bit)

Note: Windows XP/Vista/8 not supported.
Minimum System Requirements
CPU
Any Intel Core 2 or Core iX CPU. Intel or AMD single core CPU with a 3 GHz processor speed or faster (multiple CPUs and/or multi-core CPUs are recommended). SSE2 and SSE3 instruction set supported.

Memory
1 GB RAM (4 GB or more recommended)

Hard Disk
  • 6 GB of hard disk space is required for installation (including third-party software)
  • Drive with ATA100/7,200 RPM or faster is necessary for video storage:
    • Available HDD disc space should be twice the size of the file to be edited
    • RAID-0 is recommended for HD resolution editing

Graphics Card
A graphics card supporting higher resolution than 1024x768 (32-bit), Direct3D 9.0c or later, and PixelShader Model 3.0 or later is required
  • For SD editing: 256 MB or larger required, 512 MB or larger recommended
  • For HD editing: 512 MB or larger required, 1 GB or larger recommended

Sound Card
A sound card with WDM driver support is required

DVD-ROM Drive
Required for software installation
Blu-ray Disc writer, DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW drive is required when creating Blu-ray Discs or DVDs

Internet Connection
Required for software license activation

Operating Systems
Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Note: External video decks/cameras may require either a free FireWire (IEEE 1394) port or USB 2.0 port for connectivity.

Service and Support
90-day limited warranty
  • EDIUS installation disc (DVD-ROM)
  • Installation guide
May 30, 2013
San Francisco, Calif., May 30, 2013Grass Valley will be exhibiting its latest innovations in end-to-end live production workflows at InfoComm 2013, 12-14 June, Florida. Visitors to the Grass Valley booth (#5659) will be able to see live demonstrations of its switchers, media server and client solutions, and cameras, designed to enable content creators ranging from broadcasters, corporations, universities, entertainment and hospitality venues, and houses of worship (HOW), to cost-effectively produce, deliver and manage live content across multiple distribution platforms.
April 29, 2013
San Francisco, Calif., April 29, 2013 — Yomiuri TV, a major broadcaster in the Kansai region of Japan, has selected Grass Valley® to replace its entire tape-based linear editing workflow, including content management and archive systems, and send to playout, with a new file-based solution.

EDIUS Elite: Edit Collaboratively Data Sheet

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